Gemstones like precious opal are beautiful to look at and deceivingly complex. As you look at such gems from different angles ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

In 2023, a team of physicists from Sandia National Laboratories announced a major discovery: a way to steer LED light. If ...

If you’re building a project on your ESP32, you might want to give it a fancy graphical interface. If so, you might find a ...

Is there any more apt a piece of imagery to depict late-stage capitalism than a Home Depot installing sonic weaponry and then training those irritating sound waves against not only the day laborers it ...

China has reportedly built a working prototype of an advanced chip-making machine, defying Western predictions. Former ASML engineers are said to be behind the project, which aims for semiconductor ...

Many of us have them, few of us really hack on them: well, here we’re talking about large home appliances. [Severin von Wnuck-Lipinski] and [Hajo Noerenberg] were both working on washing ...

Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...